A Study of Personality, Motivation and Chemistry Academic Achievement

Abstract

The purpose of the research was to investigate whether personality and motivation of junior college students were related to chemistry academic achievement. Participants were 350 junior college students. After screening the returned questionnaires and eliminating invalid responses, there were usable 326 valid questionnaires. They filled in the questionnaires of personality traits (i.e. NEO-FFI) and the Motivation Questionnaire (i.e. Patterns of Adaptive Learning Survey). In terms of the relationship between personality and academic achievement, results showed that positive and significant relationship between chemistry academic achievement and extraversion personality trait. Also, chemistry academic achievement and overall motivation have positive and significant relationship. In terms of the relationship between each construct of personality and motivation, we found that Neuroticism and Extraversion were negatively related with achievement goal and learning environment stimulation. Conscientiousness was also negatively related with achievement goal. Openness and Agreeableness do not have any significant relation with each construct of motivation.